---
title: OceanBase
---

[OceanBase Database](https://github.com/oceanbase/oceanbase) is a distributed relational database.
It is developed entirely by Ant Group. The OceanBase Database is built on a common server cluster.
Based on the Paxos protocol and its distributed structure, the OceanBase Database provides high availability and linear scalability.

OceanBase currently has the ability to store vectors. Users can easily perform the following operations with SQL:

- Create a table containing vector type fields;
- Create a vector index table based on the HNSW algorithm;
- Perform vector approximate nearest neighbor queries;
- ...

## Installation

<CodeGroup>
```bash pip
pip install -U langchain-oceanbase
```

```bash uv
uv add langchain-oceanbase
```
</CodeGroup>

We recommend using Docker to deploy OceanBase:

```shell
docker run --name=ob433 -e MODE=slim -p 2881:2881 -d oceanbase/oceanbase-ce:4.3.3.0-100000132024100711
```

[More methods to deploy OceanBase cluster](https://github.com/oceanbase/oceanbase-doc/blob/V4.3.1/en-US/400.deploy/500.deploy-oceanbase-database-community-edition/100.deployment-overview.md)

### Usage

For a more detailed walkthrough of the OceanBase Wrapper, see [this notebook](https://github.com/oceanbase/langchain-oceanbase/blob/main/docs/vectorstores.ipynb)
